| insurance claim | demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy |
| social insurance | government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people, financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue |
| national insurance | social insurance program in Britain, based on contributions from employers and employees, provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services |
| old-age insurance | insurance paid to the elderly |
| survivors insurance | insurance paid to surviving spouses |
| disability insurance | social insurance for the disabled |
bicycle
bike
wheel cycle | a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals |
pedicab
cycle rickshaw | a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling), used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire, boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs |
policy insurance policy
insurance | written contract or certificate of insurance, you should have read the small print on your policy |
| cycle of rebirth | (Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms |
| cycle oscillation | a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon, a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons |
| cardiac cycle | the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next, an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles, the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram |
Carnot cycle
Carnot's ideal cycle | a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat |
| cycle | a periodically repeated sequence of events, a cycle of reprisal and retaliation |
business cycle
trade cycle | recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline |
insurance company
insurance firm
insurer
insurance underwriter
underwriter | a financial institution that sells insurance |
| cycle | a series of poems or songs on the same theme, Schubert's song cycles |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDIC | a federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions |
insurance broker
insurance agent
general agent underwriter | an agent who sells insurance |
food web
food cycle | (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains |
| life cycle | a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage |
| premium insurance premium | payment for insurance |
coverage
insurance coverage | the total amount and type of insurance carried |
| insurance | promise of reimbursement in the case of loss, paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company |
automobile insurance
car insurance | insurance against loss due to theft or traffic accidents |
no fault insurance
no fault automobile insurance | a system of automobile insurance where a party who is injured in an automobile accident recovers damages up to a specific amount against his own insurance company regardless of who was responsible for the accident, the amount of litigation resulting from minor accidents is reduced by no fault insurance |
| business interruption insurance | insurance that provides protection for the loss of profits and continuing fixed expenses resulting from a break in commercial activities due to the occurrence of a peril |
| fire insurance | insurance against loss due to fire |
| group insurance | insurance that is purchased by a group (such as the employees of a company) usually at a reduced rate to individual members of the group |
| hazard insurance | insurance that provides protection against certain risks such as storms or fires |
| health insurance | insurance against loss due to ill health |
hospitalization insurance
hospitalization | insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense |
| liability insurance | insurance that provides protection from claims arising from injuries or damage to other people or property |
life insurance
life assurance | insurance paid to named beneficiaries when the insured person dies, in England they call life insurance life assurance |
| endowment insurance | life insurance for a specified amount which is payable to the insured person at the expiration of a certain period of time or to a designated beneficiary immediately upon the death of the insured |
| tontine tontine insurance | a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members |
whole life insurance
ordinary life insurance
straight life insurance | insurance on the life of the insured for a fixed amount at a definite premium that is paid each year in the same amount during the entire lifetime of the insured |
| malpractice insurance | insurance purchased by physicians and hospitals to cover the cost of being sued for malpractice, obstetricians have to pay high rates for malpractice insurance |
| self-insurance | insuring yourself by setting aside money to cover possible losses rather than by purchasing an insurance policy |
| term insurance | lowost insurance that is valid only for a stated period of time and has no cash surrender value or loan value, term insurance is most often associated with life insurance policies |
| carbon cycle | a thermonuclear reaction in the interior of stars |
| carbon cycle | the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again |
Krebs cycle
Krebs citric acid cycle
citric acid cycle
tricarboxylic acid cycle | in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy |
| life cycle | the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced |
| nitrogen cycle | the circulation of nitrogen, nitrates from the soil are absorbed by plants which are eaten by animals that die and decay returning the nitrogen back to the soil |
vicious circle
vicious cycle | one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first |
| indemnity insurance | protection against future loss |
hertz
Hz
cycle per second
cycles
second
cps
cycle | the unit of frequency, one hertz has a periodic interval of one second |
cycle
rhythm
round | an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs, the never-ending cycle of the seasons |
| menstrual cycle | a recurring cycle (beginning at menarche and ending at menopause) in which the endometrial lining of the uterus prepares for pregnancy, if pregnancy does not occur the lining is shed at menstruation, the average menstrual cycle is days |